{"id":230290,"date":"2026-04-13T14:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-and-zambia-sign-u-s-2-billion-railway-line-mou\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:45:24","slug":"zimbabwe-and-zambia-sign-u-s-2-billion-railway-line-mou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-and-zambia-sign-u-s-2-billion-railway-line-mou\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe and Zambia Sign U.S.$2 Billion Railway Line MOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Zimbabwe and Zambia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop the Lion&#8217;s Den-Kafue railway line, a project aimed at enhancing regional trade and economic connectivity in southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The agreement was formalised on Saturday by Zimbabwe&#8217;s Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Felix Mhona, and his Zambian counterpart, Frank Tayali, during the Emerging Railways Properties (Pvt) Limited (ERP) Council of Ministers meeting in Victoria Falls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The 311-kilometre&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604130061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe and Zambia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop the Lion&#8217;s Den-Kafue railway line, a project aimed at enhancing regional trade and economic connectivity in southern Africa. The agreement was formalised on Saturday by Zimbabwe&#8217;s Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Felix Mhona, and his Zambian counterpart, Frank Tayali, during the Emerging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,6495,6402,5778,257,2918,4368,254,43977,4709,881,4686],"class_list":["post-230290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-line","tag-mou","tag-news","tag-railway","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-2","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zimbabwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}